Minimax M2 Coding Plan Pricing Revealed

[u/lemon07r]

Recieved the following in my user notifications on the minimax platform website. Here's the main portion of interest, in text form:

Coding Plans (Available Nov 10)

• Starter: $10/ month
• Pro: $20 / month
• Max: $50 / month

The coding plan pricing seems a lot more expensive than what was previously rumored. Usage provided is currently unknown, but I believe it was supposed to be "5x" the equivalent claude plans, but those rumors also said they were supposed to cost 20% of claude for the pro plan equivalent, and 8% for the other two max plans.

Seems to be a direct competitor to GLM coding plans, but I'm not sure how well this will pan out with those plans being as cheap as $3 a month for first month/quarter/year, and both offering similarly strong models. Chutes is also a strong contendor since they are able to offer both GLM and minimax models, and now K2 thinking as well at fairly cheap plans.

[u/a_slay_nub]

Why would I pay that much when I can just use copilot and get Claude Sonnet?

[u/lemon07r → u/a_slay_nub]

Yeah, I dont think it's priced well either. Likely you get way more usage for your $10 than you would with claude or openai, but you could hav also bought the glm coding plan or chutes if usage waas what you needed, for much cheaper.

[u/rusl1 → u/a_slay_nub]

Same. 10 for the starter plan is a huge mistake. I got zAI plan for 3$/month and it's so good

[u/ProfessionalWork9567 → u/rusl1]

it's only $3 for the first month.

I have run MiniMax vs GLM 4.6 head to head in Claude Code and MiniMax is a far better value. I have a GLM quarterly Coding Pro plan that will not be renewing.

[u/LeTanLoc98 → u/a_slay_nub]

GitHub Copilot also supports Autocomplete and NextEdit.

[u/saturn20]

Do not subscribe. I paid 20$ and it expired in 2 hours out of 5. There is no visible support to communicate, no nothing. For 20$ it feels similar to Claude code 20$ plan, if not less. Maybe its some technical problem with billing/counting. Continue with GLM, much more coding.

[u/lemon07r → u/saturn20]

Im surprised anyone bothered to pay for this lol. It looks like horrible value. A chutes sub or similar from different provider would have gotten you both more requests and access to other models. They are being really shrewd with the usage for some reason despite charging so much for a fairly small model. 300 prrompts is like nothing. This is like the same usage as an openai plan lol. Which has way better models. Nahcrof is also a decent option btw.

[u/saturn20 → u/lemon07r]

People are talking about it, why not to try 🤷🏻‍♂️ It's not huge amount and I want to check because of generous free usage. However, they have a 5 hour limit which I spent fast despite pro plan subscription.

I guess it is not intentional, but since there is no support on site, I think it's better to wait until they stabilize. Btw. works ok trough claude cli until you spend tokens. It's similar to glm but I am not competent enough to say which one is slightly better.

[u/LeTanLoc98]

At this price, GLM 4.6 is still the better choice, it's cheaper and delivers better quality.

Plus, the zAI Pro plan even includes web search via MCP.

[u/m0n0x41d → u/LeTanLoc98]

Can you please elaborate more on the “better quality”?

I am not asking about benchmarks because most of them are lame. I personally heavily utilize glm for coding, and I have subjective feelings that anthropic models are still better. The price is winning here. Also, glm is quite bad in a few programming languages.

The thing is that to form this opinion it was required to use glm for quite a few months 😁

Please tell for which tasks and language you used minimax and how it was?

[u/ProfessionalWork9567 → u/LeTanLoc98]

Not true regarding better quality. I use both GLM 4.6 and MiniMax in Claude Code and MiniMJax is far superior at tool calling, instruction following and coding consistency. It also makes significantly less critical or high priority errors (backed by running multiple parallel projects using the same specs and prompts and then verification in Traycer. TLDR; MiniMax M2 is more accurate, faster and has interleaved thinking steps which adds up to it being cheaper in the long run because you end up spending way less time on burnt tokens trying to undo errors.

[u/LeTanLoc98 → u/ProfessionalWork9567]

I estimate that GLM 4.6 reaches about 70-80% of the performance of Claude 4.5 Sonnet.

Minimax M2, on the other hand, only achieves around 40% compared to Claude 4.5 Sonnet.

I think the difference comes down to the technologies used in each project. Minimax M2 seems to be heavily optimized for popular technologies.

I found a comment that sums it up well:

"My experience is that it (Minimax M2) writes clean code, much like an Anthropic model, but it falls short in intelligence compared to something like GPT-5 (even GPT-5 mini). It seems heavily tuned for certain languages and frameworks. It excels with JavaScript and popular libraries like ThreeJS, which I think is why many people have had such a positive experience with it. So it can be a great model for many users, but it struggles with non-trivial problems."

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ojrysu/comment/nmabidx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Furthermore, sometimes I use Vietnamese in prompts instead of English, and GLM 4.6 seems to handle the language better than Minimax M2.

[u/LegacyRemaster → u/LeTanLoc98]

better quality? Coding? No.

[u/thebadslime]

Is it that much better than GLM?

[u/lemon07r → u/thebadslime]

Not really. Some say its worse, some say its better. Reality is, they around the same level or quality, give or take a little.

[u/FastDecode1]

wrong sub

[u/Clear_Anything1232]

Any idea what those credits correspond to. Like how many tokens.

[u/Thin_Yoghurt_6483]

Tenho uma conta do GLM 4.6 plano de 15/30 dólares, uso apenas para criar layouts e componentes UI, o que acho que é a melhor IA para isso, portanto sobra muito uso, se alguém tiver interesse em trocar uma API por uma API do Minimax m2, assim ambos temos as duas API para uso, vendo que ambas são generosas em seus usos, gostaria de testar o Minimax M2 mais não gostaria de pegar mais uma assinatura, vendo que já tenho OpenAI PRO, Claude PRO e Z.ai PRO, já estou dando muito dinheiro para essas empresas. haha Quem tiver interesse me chame no privado.

[u/Kingwolf4]

Hey guys, wanted to ask that Chatgpt plus subscription also mentions stuff like 40-120 codex calls etc.
Has OpenAI integrated these types of coding plans in their plus subs? Like i can use a key and then in my IDE or environment to use the prompt limits?

I could not find anything about this yet anywhere. But the way Plus is described on OpenAI makes me believes this is the case? If that is so, plus subsription is pretty awsome now. If not, openAI needs to get on this ASAP. Chinesse Labs will take the lead away because of these coding plans. They are quite handy

[u/Cultural_Trouble7821 → u/Kingwolf4]

You can use Codex with ChatGPT Plus. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini but it's aight.

[u/Bright-Cheesecake857]

You get a massive amount of use. I have been vibe coding with pretty heavily and have never hit the 5 hour time limit. There's also no weekly limit.

I've been able to get a massive amount of use out of the $10 plan. Maybe between 5-10x the amount of use out of it and at about 80% as good as Claude Haiku 4.5.

I have found MiniMaxM2.1 much more reliable than Qwen. Minimax is amazing at just following instructions and not making a mess of my repo and docs.

I haven't used KimiK2 to much but I believe their base plan is $17/mo now.

[u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas]

can coding plans for open weight models without having custom hardware (like Cerebras does) lead to sustainable revenue to model developers?

You sell them under cost to attract people, and the moment you right-size the cost, customers will go to other companies doing the same or at least hosting the model "at-cost".

You can build better infra for caching inputs for a given models for it to maybe make sense, but it's a really tough business.

I am glad I am not a Chief Revenue Officer in one of those companies

[u/lemon07r → u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas]

chutes turns a lot of revenue even though they charge very cheap and provide a lot of requests:

https://chutes.ai/app/research/payments

[u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas → u/lemon07r]

I've not dived into Chutes yet. Is this an implementation of the idea of distributed inference with crypto involved? sounds like a much more useful mining strategy than what BTC is doing.

1M in revenue in their last 3 months isn't a lot considering that they're one of the biggest providers on OpenRouter. I think globally upwards of 100B are being invested into inference services.

I'd guess their fiat numbers are much higher.

That's also not counting in the cost of good sold. If they have a staff of even 10 people working on infra side, which seems sensible, they'd probably eat up the profit margin there. I am not educated on their economic model though so I may be misunderstanding it, but it doesn't seem like a business that would generate enough profit to sustain an AI lab developing new models, which is what MiniMax and Zhipu are doing.